David Ordonez

We build AI-powered air defence systems to protect people and critical infrastructure. Our flagship autonomous interceptor detects, tracks, and neutralizes enemy UAVs at high speed with minimal human intervention. Battlefield-tested and developed according to the needs of armed forces, TYTAN delivers cost-efficient, scalable, and interoperable defence solutions. Our mission is to close critical gaps in Europe’s air defence and strengthen democratic resilience through advanced, combat-ready technology.

At Lace Lithography, we enable the next 100 years of chip production. We develop breakthrough chip patterning technology, which extends Moore’s Law a decade beyond current tech. Our company is headquartered in Norway and has offices in Bergen (NO) and Barcelona (ES). We are actively searching for exceptional talents to join our cutting-edge development team in Bergen and Barcelona. Reach out to us at careers@lacelithography.com to connect.

Proxima Fusion is Europes leading fusion company, building the first generation of stellarator fusion power plants.

Isar Aerospace develops next generation rockets for sustainable access to space for small and medium satellites and satellite constellations.

Fractile is building chips, systems and software to radically improve the speed and cost of running frontier AI inference. Existing hardware is good for training frontier AI models, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly defining the new era of AI compute workloads. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale. Weve rearchitected the inference stack from the ground up - silicon to software - to enable generational leaps in capability on the world’s hardest and most important problems.

iCOMAT is a leading manufacturer of advanced composite structures for the aerospace and automotive industries. Leveraging its proprietary fiber-steering technology, iCOMAT enables the production of lightweight, high-performance components at unprecedented scale and efficiency.

The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) is an independent venture capital firm backed by 24 NATO Allies. With a €1 billion flagship fund, the NIF will invest in advanced science and technology driven enterprises that will enhance our nations’ defence, security and resilience. For us, high-impact verticals include artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, energy & propulsion, materials science, and space. We are passionate about autonomy, new materials and quantum computing, and want to shore up cutting-edge hardware and software. We will directly invest into deep tech driven enterprises, identifying opportunities across all the 24 participating Allied nations, as well as into other funds who will help realise our mission of collective security and prosperity. Over time, the NIF’s investments will attract and encourage more like-minded investors, and help transform how nations and the private sector work together to face emerging challenges.

We build AI-powered air defence systems to protect people and critical infrastructure. Our flagship autonomous interceptor detects, tracks, and neutralizes enemy UAVs at high speed with minimal human intervention. Battlefield-tested and developed according to the needs of armed forces, TYTAN delivers cost-efficient, scalable, and interoperable defence solutions. Our mission is to close critical gaps in Europe’s air defence and strengthen democratic resilience through advanced, combat-ready technology.

At Lace Lithography, we enable the next 100 years of chip production. We develop breakthrough chip patterning technology, which extends Moore’s Law a decade beyond current tech. Our company is headquartered in Norway and has offices in Bergen (NO) and Barcelona (ES). We are actively searching for exceptional talents to join our cutting-edge development team in Bergen and Barcelona. Reach out to us at careers@lacelithography.com to connect.

Proxima Fusion is Europes leading fusion company, building the first generation of stellarator fusion power plants.

Isar Aerospace develops next generation rockets for sustainable access to space for small and medium satellites and satellite constellations.

Fractile is building chips, systems and software to radically improve the speed and cost of running frontier AI inference. Existing hardware is good for training frontier AI models, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly defining the new era of AI compute workloads. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale. Weve rearchitected the inference stack from the ground up - silicon to software - to enable generational leaps in capability on the world’s hardest and most important problems.